21 Apr 2008 19:48:11

John Rethorst

Spam and usenet

Most of the newsgroups I read are becoming inundated with spam. I saw a post claiming a solution and followed its link, http://improve-usenet.org/.This site says that Google Groups is the conduit for a lot of spam hitting usenet. I have no connection with this site. Iıd seen anti-Google Groups stuff before and ignored it. I use a dedicated newsgroups reader (MT-Newswatcher on Mac) but was never enough of a purist to care if others posted via Google or not. But the spam was getting to me. So I followed its instructions and added a filter to Newswatcher: Kill if Message-ID contains ³googlegroups.com². Presto. The spam is gone. Some authentic, quality posts may be gone too; I donıt know, thus I post this. Iım sorry if I miss the value that you add to this group, but I need to keep this filter. -- John Rethorst jrethorst at post dot com